Edward S. Temple Served as the Head Coach of Tennessee State University's Women's Track Team, The Famous Tigerbelles, For Forty-Four Years. He Also Served as Head Women's Track coach on Two United State Olympic Teams. His Tigerbelles Won...

Edward S. Temple Served as the Head Women's Track Coach of the Tennessee State University "Tigerbelles" For More Than 40 Years and Was Also an Associate Professor of Sociology. During His Coaching Tenure, Forty Members of His Famed Tigerbelles...

Isabelle Daniels, a Member of the Tennessee A & I State College Tigerbelles, Fills Out the Paperwork for Her Parade Uniform for the 1955 Pan-American Games in Mexico City, Mexico. She Won a Silver Medal in the 60 Meter Dash and Gold Medal as Part...

Jean Patton Is Welcomed Home to Tennessee A & I State College With a Parade in Her Honor. She Was Lauded as the "World's Fastest Woman" After Her Performance in the Inaugural Pan-American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1951. Patton Won the...

Lucinda Williams Is Pictured in Her Tennessee A & I State University Track Uniform. She Ran the Third Leg of the 4x100 Meter Relay That Won a Gold Medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics. At the 1958 Pan-American Games in Chicago, Illinois, Williams Won...

Members of the Tigerbelle Track Team of Tennessee A & I State University Display the Medals They Won in a Track Meet Against the U.S.S.R in Moscow in 1958. Pictured are Coach Edward S. Temple, Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, Isabelle Daniels and...

Olympian champion, Lee Calhoun (second from left) and head track and field coach LeRoy Walker admire track and field trophy winnings. Lee Calhoun was a gold medalist in the 110-meter at the 1956 Games in Melbourne, Australia. In 1961, Lee Calhoun...

Tennessee's One, Two, Three 60 Meter Pan-American Games Tryouts and AAU National Indooor Championship Winners Get Their Medals and Congratulations From Louis G. Wilke, AAU National President. 2nd From Left to Right: Margaret Davis, Mae Faggs,...

Wilma Rudolph, Hailed as the "Lady of Gold" and "La Gazelle Noire," Was the First Woman to Win Three Gold Medals In a Single Olympiad. In 1960, She Won the 100-Meter Dash, the 200-Meter Dash, and the 400-Meter Relay in Rome, Italy.